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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Weißeck Area, Murwinkel, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.8 × 6.1 × 1.6 cm
Description

This specimen is from a small recent discovery in the north sloap of Weisseck mountain. The sharp erminated and lustrous flourite crystals are restin on a thin vain of quarz (only about 1 mm thick). The flourite crystals show always one or two faces with an intergrown light grey phantom and two other sides which show very good translucency and dark violet internal color. On the backside you can see this thin vain of quarz wit honly a few isolated flourite crystals. The first photo shows the specimen with minor backlight, the second one shows the specimen under daylight.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic